===== Game designers and studios =====


==== Academics/Artists/Creators ====


  * Scott Nicholson (Canada), works on IF and low-cost game design amoung other things!\\ 

  * Erik Champion (Australia), interested and widely published on interactivity and cultural heritage

  * Susannah Emery (Australia), narrative design, education, and advocate for diversity in the games industry

  * Lynda Kelly (Australia), extensive and sector-leading work on visitor studies and educational game evaluation

  * Nellie Seale (Australia), concurrent PhD candidate with an interest in games in museums and mega-games.

  * Angelika Antiniou (Greece), fantastic work with visitor evaluations and games for Greek museums

  * Fredrik Breien (Norway), research on Digital Game-Based Learning and design/evaluation frameworks

  * Elizabeth LaPensée (Canada), narrative director at Twin Suns Studio. Award-winning designer, writer, and artist of games and comics, particularly like her writing about When Rivers Were Trails

  * Emily Short (US), narrative designer and educator, very generous with advice on her blog

  * Stephen “thecatamites” Gillmurphy (Ireland), game designer and all round weird guy, highly recommend

  * Daisy Abbott (Scotland), interdisciplinary researcher into interactive games for education, particularly using quest maps! Great resources for playful learning tools

  * Hannah Nicklin (UK), narrative designer and game dev. studio lead, fantastic book on narrative design